[skinsguy]

I give Richard Sherman credit. I think he IS the best corner in the league. He talks a lot of smack, but he backs it up with his play on the field. I'd love to have someone on the 'skins defense with his talent.

With that said, here are things that Sherman apologists have used as reasons for agreeing with his behavior:

1) Sherman was interviewed during the "heat of the moment! His team just won the NFC Championship and is going to the Super Bowl. Sherman is going to be pumped up!"

OK. How about all the players who have come before him, who have played in the Super Bowl, who were interviewed during the "heat of the moment" and were very professional during their after game interviews? Sorry, that excuse doesn't fly.

2) Crabtree started the whole thing.

So what? Who care's? Maturity is letting it roll off of you an moving on. Sherman is talented enough to let his play on his field speak for him. He doesn't need to flap his gums.

3) Sherman is a Stanford grad, how can he be called a thug?

Since when does book smarts cancel out commonsense? I know plenty of people who graduated at the top of their class that has failed at life because they have no commonsense. And who's to say it was all Richard Sherman? Maybe it was, and maybe it was all of his tutors? We don't know the real story behind his education. All we know is, he doesn't appear to be representing Stanford with the highest of maturity level.